Michael Rossman was a leading student activist in 1964 and founder of the Free Speech Movement.
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* The Free Speech Movement led to the founding of "free universities."
* Free universities advocated a new (then) philosophy that "anybody could teach, anybody could learn."
* My association, the Learning Resources Network, was originally an association of free universities called the Free University Network.
* Everyone in society then adopted the philosophy that anyone could teach and anyone could learn.
Conclusion: Michael Rossman made a major contribution to learning and education and society.
Michael Rossman died last month at the age of 68. Here's his obituary in the NY Times.
In a keynote at one of our conferences in 1982, Rossman said, "We need to open the elixir of magic, the expansion of human liberation and energy by recreating the modality of teacher and student, reconstructing educational authority in the group." He opened the elixir of magic for us all.
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